alt Hacker NewsIt feels ridiculous that a person has to go to these kind of lengths to do what is in the end a trivial thing: assigning little pieces of a gigantic virtual address space to specific peripherals.
The only thing that's complex here is having to influence a bunch of hidden software through three layers of indirection. The software is all standing in the way of a person just writing some values to registers.
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ethersteeds • yesterday at 5:19 PM
Another important benefit is that transfers between cards flow across the switch and bypass the CPU, that ain't nothing. At least for the AMD cards. Nvidia firmware refuses nach
Feels nostalgic. Kind of like Linux in the 90s. :)